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“Ali and Nino” is a powerful stage adaptation of Ali and Nino.

He is a Muslim. She is a Georgian princess. Outside their world — revolution, war, and the collapse of everything that once seemed eternal. Between them arises something that should never have happened. Not because it was forbidden, but because it seemed impossible. And yet, it happens.

Director Ilgar Safat avoids turning this story into a polished romantic legend. His Baku of the early twentieth century is not merely a backdrop, but a place of fracture — between East and West, between a fading past and a future not yet fully formed. Everything here feels fragile, unstable, suspended on the edge. And within this fragility emerges something irreversible.

No revolution can erase what happened between Ali and Nino — in this city, on these streets, in a time that will never return again. Baku remembers them. And they are waiting for you.

Stage Director: Ilgar Safat
Production Designer: Mustafa Mustafayev
Music Arrangement: Ilgar Safat
Choreography: Nigar Rzayeva, Raula Turkkan
Lighting Designer: Nikolai Rudychev
Stage Combat: Asker Rahimov
Assistant Director: Lanita Afonina

Cast:
Ali Khan Shirvanshir — Murad Ismayilov, Ibrahim Chingiz
Nino Kipiani — Syama Valiyeva
Melik Nakhararyan — Farid Bahramov
Ilyas Bey, Ali’s friend — Rashad Aliyarov
Muhammad Heydar, Ali’s friend — Farid Huseynov
Seyid Mustafa — Zaur Teregulov
Princess Kipiani / Mrs. Turinova / First English Lady — Elena Spitsina
Safar Khan Shirvanshir, Ali’s father — Maksud Mamedov
Prince Kipiani / Mirza Asadulla — Yagub Zeynalov
Gochu / English Lieutenant — Yaroslav Trifonov
Qazi Molla / Old Mustafa — Abdulla Ismayilov
Prince Didiani — Salman Bayramov
Princess Orbelyani — Elmira Aslanova
Sandro / Fatali Khan Khoyski — Ilkin Mekhtiyev
Assad-as-Saltane Shirvanshir / English Diplomat — Zaur Iskenderov
His Wives — Medina Mullayeva, Govhar Shahbanova, Maya Vorobzhanskaya, Samira Ragimova
Yahya Guli (Eunuch) — Rumiya Agayeva
Second English Lady / Third Avar Woman / Woman in Veil — Maya Vorobzhanskaya
Second Avar Woman / Woman in Veil — Laman Azimova
First Avar Woman / Woman in Veil — Olesya Gasymova
Midwife — Zumrud Aliyeva
First Newspaper Seller / Commissioner in Leather Coat — Tamerlan Abdullayev
Second Newspaper Seller / Commissioner in Leather Coat — Mirzaaga Akhundzade

Duration:
Act I — 60 minutes
Act II — 70 minutes